Smyrna times., 1887-06-29
Countv and State Items.


botb for the reception of guests.
Joseph Dean has been appointe
ovecntor of the estate of William Dear
deceased
Roy c. w. Prettyman, of Newark
will spend the summer with his famil,
at RehObOth.
Robert r. Bradford, of Delaware, wa
graduated last week with the degre
&. B., at Princeton College.
The cottages at Rehoboth are at
discount. Two or three have been rem
ted but at prices not runerative.
Charles W. Flintham of Delaware. i
amembor of the graduating class of Mt
Joseph's College, Baltimore county
Nd.
The coat.tail Irritation is the latest
A wrinkled coat tail, bearing dusty toe
marks, means: 81 have spoken to your
father"
The Methodists laid the cornerstone
ola new chapel at the corner of Gov
ernor's avenue and Mary street, Dover,
last Sunday.
DR.. /. II. Bishop, of Dover, has pur-
chased the large double house on the
green now occupied by n. B. Smithers.
Jr., for $4,000.
Charles Z. Fem celebrated his 5Stb
birthday Monday. Mr. Fem has been
pressman and uperintendent of the
Delavarean for twenty-eight years.
Potato growers from the lower DOR
ton of the Peninsula are shipping two
large trains daily of early potatoes up
the railroad, each containing at least
30 cars.
Cards are out announcing the mar
rirge of Miss Della Simmons, of Har.
ringtOn, to Joseph Phillips, of Philadel-
phia, in the Harrington NJ. Z. Church
on June 80.
Estimates of 10000 baskets of peaches
for MiddletOWn station made some few
weeks ago, may now on competent du.
thority says the Transcript, be placed
at 5000 baskets.
At the drawing for tents at the Cam
den Camp Ground more tents were
drawn than usual on the first dav. The
indications point to one of the largest
camps held for years.
John J. HOffecker, who for the uast
year has been employed as collector and
solicitor for the Ney Era, of Middletown
has accepted position as clerk in the
Peoples National Bank, of that town.
w. H. Money near Townsend had a
crop ofWheat so heavy that it gave him
same trouble in harvesting, the machine
had to be let out to its utmost in order
10 bind it. The wheat is the Shoemaker
variety.
A storm of unprecedented severity
swept over Wilmington, Del, Wedpas.
morning beginning at l340 o'clock and
lasting iOr an hour. Three persons were
killed, two were wounded, one building
demolished and large number of 9th
ers We're injured.
William P. COrsa of fruit exchange
fame proposes to start an exchange All
his own in Milford. He is moved to do
this because Of the tardy action of the
growers in organizing for themselves.
Mr. COrsa will himself be president
secretary treasurer and bQard of direc-
!ffs OF the new exchange, aud can act
promptly and without the cumbrousness
OF la directors meeting.
We have recently seen the statement
" some Of our exchanges that Mr.. Pick
lel' ot Wilmington, is the only Republi
can Collector OF Customs in the United
STATES ln other words Mr.. Cleveland
has removed every Collector of Customs
save Mr.. Pickles. Such being the case
Ihe people of Delaware, especially the
Democratic portion, would like to know
why ne is kept in office DeIq,rarean.
There were shipped from Selbvville
station this season thirty-fve car loads
oF ooraVO quarts OfstFaW berries. which
"tls SOLD 10 New York at an average
0!d u . cents per quart, amounting to S22.-
OoO. Out of this sum the railroad com
Pany got S4,655; carriers from Jersey
City, S9l8; commission men. 80 2O5.
Plckers, $5, 5,5l2, leaving only 8,758. or
ABOUT l y cents per quart for the
HLW f4FEk.-AOOut the middle of
guy the first copy Of the Tader will he
puoliShed IN the town Of Dover. II is
70 % Oe a four-page, seven n-column paper.
UUSlliocratlc U IN politics, with a GRAY
" InoicOtt cOlOring. Ex-SheriF F. n
Duhn will mount the tripod. He has
.alIeady ordered an extra quantity of
lhk and one barrel of gall, 70 be used
guy On Family occasions. The nub-
lcaIlQn rooms will be over Collisonis
Stores Sentinel.
Dr. George w. Marshall of Milford
%lll sail on Tuesday, July ). for Eurone
~ company with DR.. Bartin of Pbiladel-
pna. They will visit the principal hos
P,'aiS P.ic oi London, Liverpool, Dublin and
belfast. DR.. Marshall is one of the only
.%o S members OF the American ccho9l
b! medicine Of the ppited States VINO
te-'qe 10 Aelaware, and with Dir. Bar
IoA Vislts tne prominent physicians and
IIurgeons of England on professional
business affairs.
n aifeady the action of the Board of
nd..s aiuSOeeS IS bearing its legitimate and
Ha1ural fruit. The trustees of the VIII
tII;tugtOi, Conference academy at its
NSeHng on Thursday adopted resolu-
HOIs looking to the establishment of an
sSd ssSidictltural J. department. in the academy
gaI1 SaH vley ask for the fifteen thousand
a0iiaIs as.laI. under the law of Congress for the
eeo.aaGlls1ment -. ~ of agricultural stations
S, 'nG Inherent states. They pledge to
r@'iiisn IN y. Tree the teachers for this Dur-
ara pOo', surely Delaware college managers
,,ie sowing that they may reap the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
@ The SENTINEL" ON PEACHES
saturdays Dover Sentinel prints 4S
80 so'SeIs S'i5 from peach growers, prefaced
"a "a tTIlIo"s We give below our an
I,;i1 peach estimates. From them il
sb1.! J'li DC seen that the peach crop will be
InOrI' indeed. The 100000 baskets
NM NM 1wlnq 11lnq led down until there ig not
EEtsp lan nn. one and a-half million has
sHoI FStI Y sight. qhese may possibly
s,,'' sToll 70 larger proportions than now
[FeIars. peIa The crop has gone, no one
re- iso~S Wny or how, hut it is not on the
GoUsmiAuch 70 the growers regret"
MI WSJTernor Biggs estimates Millington,
dio,., az, good for $4,000 baskets and Mid
l0.o%n nos.1%sn 10000. Other estimates re-
su sU,veu are: Green Spring, 10000;
sag y rna, ~ l2O, 900; Hartley, s, 900; Wood.
w., W., 'G,OOO to $4,000; Dover, $4,000;
o. n yom,ng, a1.,g 100000; Little Creek, 1000;
s0 s091o6oeeronry, 16e 10000; Willow Grove,
sF sF9 9Ge FELTON,, 600pOj Harrington,
fts'Dg4 70 $4,000 Faraington. bdI0O.: